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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06
BEECHER,s SUCCESSOR.
"A Discussion Regarding the Mat.
ter by Plymouth Church PEG.

"A Discussion Regarding the Mat
ter by Plymouth Church Peo-
pie.
New YORK, June 4.-The question of
Henry Ward Beecher's successor as
pastor of Plymouth church was dis
eussed at some length last evening at a
business meeting of the church, held
after the usual Friday night meeting of
prayer. Prof. Raymond suggested that
a committee should be appointed to con-
slider the subject of a permanent sup
ply for the pulpit and to report some
time next fall. This did not suit the
views of some, and a motion was made
to leave the whole matter in the hands
OF the advisory committee. Some
was going aroused Thomas j. Shear
man, and he was rather flushed
while he made short speech referring
to past incidents in the life of Mr.
Beecher. HE could afford to be mag
nanimous," said Mr.. Sherman, '.but
we have no right to exercise magma
nimity for him. We owe it to him to
be faithful to his memory. The danger
lies in the temptation for us to be too
magnanimOuS. We should never take
a step toward asking any one to con-
done Our offense of having that great
and best man for our PASTOR" A very
decided outburst of applause made Mr..
Shearman pause for moment, but he
soon resumed his remarks. isWe don't
want to go back with Jonah into the
belly of whale, and we want no man,
however eloquent, who represents ideas
not of Mr.. Beecher's school. I trust
we shall call a man who will be faithful
in preaching a gospel of love, not fear
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lief, or very inadequate one, to the
dealer or shipper at the way station.
The commerce between the states is
SO vast, and the interests so complicated
that experience will soon teach what
ought to have been known before-viz:
No infleXible rule can be made that will
furnish remedy, without at the same
time infiicting an injury. The law can
not regulate the details when the facts,
necessities and circumstances are ever
changing-and the rule must change
where. The same rule will not always
work beneficially in the same place, and
not often in different places at the same
time. or at all times.
What is wanted is power to make a
rule and to unmake it and make differ
ent one as occasion demandS-or to
make rule and then make exceptions
these exceptions, will need constant
supervision and frequent change, the
same as in the management of any great
private business, and all the more so as
the interstate commerce business" is
of so great dimensions that to any rule
there must be vast multitude of eXcep-
tional cases demanding special rules or
the business be annihilated.
1t is barely suggested here for thought
that remedy might be found by estab-
fishing department of commerce, with
a secretary at the head of it, one COM
missioner for each judicial circuit to be
appointed by the president, one COM
missioner to be appointed by each state,
each circuit to constitute in sense a
separate district to pass upon and con-
troll the affairs of that locality, in which
the circuit and state commissioners
could be heard and act, the secretary
and circuit commissioners to be the ma
tional board with supreme control.
Ample power should be given to fix and
change rates and make and unmake
rules. If it is objected that this is too
cumbersome, too complicated, too eX-
pensive, on reflection it may be found
not to be either in comparison with the
incalculable magnitude of the interests
involved. r. A. j.
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LOTS OF COTTON
Expected to be harvested in the
Memphis District.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 5.-The cotton
crop report for the Memphis district,
which embraces West Tennessee, North
Mississippi, North Arkansas and North
Alabama, to be published tomorrow by
Hill, Fontaine & Co., will say: The
weather during May has in the main
been favorable to the growing cotton
and corn crops. This was specially true
in the states of Tennessee, Mississippi
and Alabama, where reports are uni
formly received of favorable weather.
In Arkansas general complaint is made
of too much wet weather. which has had
the effect of retarding the proper work
ing of the crop, and the result is that
two-thirds of the replies received from
that state report cotton badly in the
grass. The cotton stand in the four
states named is good, much better than
last year, and as the crop is from eight
to fourteen days earlier, the outlook is
much more promising than for the pSSt
three years. Taken as whole the re-
port is most favorable, and the promise
of an abundant yield in the district was
never brighter.
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MIR. DUDLEY's INTERVIEW.

In his interview with the GLOBE this
morning, eX-CommiSSioner DUDLEY
gives frank and unreserved express
sion of his views concerning national
politics. Being a very pronounced
partisan, it is natural that Mr.. DUDLEY
should see through Republican glasses
and should view the political field from
a purely Republican standpoint. The
chief value of his opinions lies IN what
he has to say respecting the probable
policy and candidates of the Republican
party in the next national contest. 1t
doesn't take one long to discover that
Mr.. DUDLEY is not a BLAINE man. On
the contrary it is evident that ne is
satisfied in his own mind that the Re
publican party cannot succeed with MIR.
BLAINE as their next candidate. The
eX-cOmmissioner has an unmiStakable
partially for Senator SHERMAN. and by
reading the interview between tire lines
it is easy to detect that he favors the
SHERMAN-HAwLEYe combination, which
is known to exist.
The one point of special interest
brought out in Mr.. DUDLEY'S interview
is that which relates to the policy of the
Republican party as it is to be declared
in the next national platform. He says,
and says truly, that the tariff is to be
the most prominent issue, and that the
Republican party is to be the champion
of protection. This is the point to
which the GLOBE most particularly in
ViteS the attention of its Northwestern
readers. There is no mistaking the
meaning of the Republican leaders.
They intend to force their party into
an advocacy of the doctrine of protec-
ton, and. as Mr.. DUDLEY intimates,
they will abandon New York to the
Democrats and make fight for the
Southern states, where manufacturing
industries are rapidly springing up.
The Democratic party, as the cham
piOn of tariff reform, can very well
afford to meet the Republicans on this
issue. What if they do lose some
Southern states on this issue? Let
them go. There would be no great
cause for national lamentation if the
solid South should break. For every
Southern state the Democrats would
lose on the tariff question they would
gain two Western states. We are dis
posed to think that Mr.. DUDLEY is cor
rect in his assumption that the tariff is
to be the prominent issue in the next
national canvass, and for more reasons
than one we hope that it will be SO.
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sNot included in totals.
VIII n fECE OF GIlASSs
John Conley's Desperate Attempt
to Kill HIMSELF.

MORRIS, Ill, June 5.-John 'Conley,
who so cruelty murdered Mrs. Stoddard
in Braceville Friday morning, got pos
session of piece glass in Jail to-day
and again cut his throat in fearful man
ner. Henry Schwartz and Newton Watt.
the Rock Island train robbers, have
been in constant attendance on him
since his incarceration, and at O'Clock
this afternoon he asked them to go and
and leave him alone in his cell, that he
might sleep, and before they had fairly
got into the next corridor they heard
the crashing of glass, and before they
could get to him he had
opened the wound he had
made with a razor Friday, and with the
piece of glass had severed the windpipe.
He made full confession to-day. and
now says he is sorry he killed the
woman. He cannot live more than
day at the farthest. This brother ar
rived here from Chicago few moments
after his attempt at self-murder.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Sale of seats for "Alidor" will begin
this morning at the Grand box office.
The auction of boxes will commence
at 10 o'clock.
T Nine. Modjeska spent Sunday in the
city, remaining all day at her comfort
able parlors at the Ryan. She says she
feels very tired after her long seasons
work, and feels relieved that it has come
to a close. She will leave this afternoon
for Winona, and tomorrow will go to
Fond du Lac, where by special engage
ment she will open the handsome new
opera house Just completed in that city.
Then she will begin her summer vaca-
ton.
All of the principals included in the
'sAlldor'' cast reached the city yester-
day afternoon and took quarters at the
Ryan. The party consists of Prof. Stud
ley, Mr.. Karl, Mr. and Mrs. Macdonald
and Miss Agnes Huntington, who is ac-
companied by her mother and her sis
ter, Miss Effie Huntington. The entire
week will be devoted to rehearsals of
the new opera.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06
STREET WATER FOUNTAINS.

The offer made by generous-hearted
citizen through the columns of the Sun
DAY GLOBE to make contribution
toward providing water fountains on the
street corners for the accommodation of
man and beast, contains suggestion
worthy of consideration. Street corner
water fountains are something that the
city ought to have provided long ago.
During the hot summer months they
would prove an absolute blessing. They
might interfere with the beer trade to
some extent, but that is no reason why
we should not have them. To say
nothing of the accommodation they
would be to the thousands of people who
are compelled to travel the streets these
hot days, what an act of mercy it would
be to the poor horses to have convenient
watering troughs along the streets
where the famished beasts could slake
their thirst. 1t would be an act of in
eXcusable cruelty to both man and beast
if this suggestion is not carried into
effect. 1t would involve very little ex-
pense to put up these water fountains,
but if it were ever so expensive, the
benefits would justify the outlay.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06
RAILROAD EVIL REMEDY.

The question of the '''long and short
hauI' feature of the interstate COM
merce law is attracting so much atten-
ton at the present time that it may be
well to remember some of the evils it
was intended to remedy, and inquire
whether another and better remedy
cannot be found.
The evil may be illustrated by an ex-
ample or two-coal shipped by rail from
Pensylvannia to Dakota could be sold
there for so per ton. The same coal
shipped by the same train could be sold
i'll La Crosse for 81, and fifty miles east
or west of there at S1l.
Ihe Sl1 points, Of course, being non
completing, have to pay greater rate
than the point in Dakota 500 miles
further away, and also greater rate,
perhaps by one-third, than the pointonly
fifty miles nearer or further from the
point of supply.
BY the long haul clause of the act it
was sought to remedy this evil by max
ing the longer distance charge maxi
mum by which to regulate all shorter
distances, on the theory that rates for
the shorter distance would be neces-
Sarily reduced in order to equalize the
charge, while the longer distance would
not be materially increased.
This evil was great one and needed a
radical treatment, but in practical oper-
alton it may be found to work a very
great injury to long lines and terminal
points and is in fact erroneous as a test.
For example, a coal train of twenty cars,
made up III Chicago, can be run to Nit
chell, OAK. or Aberdeen for less eX-
pense per ton per mile than the same
train can be run to Madison. Wis. or
Spring Valley, Mimi. The difference is
more apparent in a haul from New York
to San Francisco or Portland, at each
end OF which is water transportation to
compete with-and in consequence
through freight by rail must be very
cheap or be abandoned-and conse-
quently it was found to be fact that a
carload of freight would be hauled
from Portland to an Eastern market
Chicago or st. Paul for instance.
at a given rate-whereas from Port
land to Spokane-one-sixth the dis
tance-would be charged three-fourths
of the through rate, or as it is
claimed, in many instances a much
greater gross sum than the carload
going 1,50O or 1900 miles further. The
mistake in the act is in not recognizing
thai increasing the charge for the long
distance is oppressive to the through
shippers and may practically abolish
that commerce and still furnish nc re-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06
An Interesting Election.

CHICAGO, June 5.-To-morrow'S cleo
ton promises to be as memorable locally
at least as the one resulting in Mayor
Roche's triumph over the red-fag
candidate. Nelson. The same
issue is to some extent
involved, but the main question to be
settled is whether the voters of Cook
county will indorse candidates for the
circuit bench who were named by a
political machine, members of
which, it is asserted, hawked
the nominations throughout the city at
$1,000 apiece. If the scenes at the Vari
Gus headquarters to-day are any indica-
ton, the balloting will be as interesting
as on the day of the defeat of Nelson.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06
MINNEAPOLIS PERSONALS.

j. H. Cook and wife have gone to Wash
ington on visit.
c. w. Shepherd and W. E. Burwell are
absent on fishing excursion.
Miss Daisy Cole daughter of AID Cole, has
returned from Vassar college for the summer
vacation.
Ed and VIII Lawler yesterday returned
from their trip to British Columbia. After
getting 600 miles on their journey the latter
was taken very sick with mountain fever,
rendering their return necessary.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
At the National: j. +. Boost, Utica, NJ
A. b. Schaeder, l.. w. Drake, Cincinnati.
At the ST. James hotel: L. A. Ellis, Cincin-
matt; Harry o. Ahlers. Dubuque; Ii. Frink,
Mankato; l.. G. Wright, Red Wing.
At the Nicollet John f. Schurch. Fred
erick Schurch, Hastings; j. Ii. Murphy,
Stevens Points A. G. Wilson, Omaha.
Al the West; w. p. Adams and wife, Wah-
petoa; j. j. Joslin and wife, Troy, N. Y;
Jehn /. Sperry- and wife, New York; Lewis
+. Lyon and wife, Auburn, n. Y.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06

and one-half miles, here the patrolmen
meet each other and exchange brass
checks, returning to their respective
stations and hand in the checks to the
captain, who enters them on his books.
sending out two more men to take the
places of the two just reporting. Any
failure to meet the adjoining patrolman
must be at once reported and the matter
attended TO with dispatch. Once a
week the captain of the station for
wards his report to the general superin-
abled or damaged craft or vessel is
sighted word is ut once sent to the near
est stations, the man sighting the vessel
first reporting to his own station. The
night watch Is from sun rise to sun set,
add should the patr0lman on his beat
sight|a vessel in distress he Immediate
ly sets fire to the castor signal, an inn
mense, imf1ammable torch, which throws
a red flame which may be clearly seen at
the adjoining stations. Placing his
toreh on the beach, the patrolman makes
for his station, all hands seize the saw
ing.aparatus and drag it to a spot on the
beach opposite the vessel. The LiSle
gun9is loaded and brought to bear
directly on the vessel; the gun is loaded
with rope and ball. This rope can be
fred-700 yards, and as soon as they man
age to fire across the vessel those on
board seize the rope, which is about
one-eighth of an inch i'm diameter. This
ropeIall hands pull from the men on the
shore and attached to it is heavier
rope three-quarters of an inch in diane
ter or more. TO this is attached
double rope with tail block
and pulleys. On this line is
t'breeches bouy'' or saving car,
in which one man at time takes posi-
ton, and as soon as the double line is
fastened well up the mast the signal is
given and the life men on shore begin
to rapidly pull in. If the sea is running
high the man in the buoy gets many a
salty dip before reaching land. The
machine works with great rapidity and
they can soon clear vessel of all on
board. If the wreck is sighted far to
sea the boats are manned, as the gun is
useless in such cases. The success at
tending the service has been remark
able, and but one or two lives have been
lost, and that through the negligence of
the party straddling the buoy contrary
to orders, placing the legs outside in
stead of inside the apparatus.
RORERT O. MACKAy
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Comprehensive Report by the Signal
Service of the Weeks Temper
ature and Rainfall.
The Weather Was Trifle Too Warm
in Oregon and California and
in the South.
Numerous and Well Distributed Showers
Reported Throughout the North
western Grain Region.
Prospects for Spring Wheat Excellent
in Dakota and Pretty Fair
in Minnesota.

WASHINGTON, June 5.-Following is
the weather and crop bulletin for the
week ending June 4: Temperature
During the week ending June the
weather has been cooler than the aver
age for the week in all agricultural dis
tricts. East of the Rocky mountains.
IN the Ohio and lower Mississippi val
leys, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia
and North Carolina and the eastern Dor
ton OF New England the deficiency of
temperature for the week ranged from
25S to 500, or daily average of about
50 cooler than usual. The temperature
was slightly in excess of the normal in
Oregon and Northern California, while
in Central and Southern California it
was above the average. The tempera-
ture for the season from January to
June 4, 1887, differs but slightly from
the normal temperature in the northern
states, and in the southern states Dor
derlng on the Atlantic coast, while the
average daily excess in the cotton re-
gion ranged from IL to %.
RAINFALL.
During the week the rainfall has
been generally increased in the states
east of the Mississippi river and hin
Louisiana, Eastern Texas, Southern
MISSOURI and Eastern Kansas. Slight
deficiencies of the rainfall for the week
are reported from the Upper Missis-
sippi valley, Minnesota, Iowa, Dakota
and Nebraska, but numerous well-dis-
trlbuted showers occurred throughout
the grain region in the Northwest,
which appears to have affected the
crops in these sections faYorably. The
cotton TpUiOO has hQan favora1
the week by an excess of rainfall. rang
ing from one to two inches iii Northern
Louisiana, Mississippi, Northern Ala
bama, North and South Carolina and
Georgia. All through there is a large
seasonable deficit of PRECIPITATION in
these states. These recent rains appear
to have been very beneficial to the
growing crops, owing to their timely
occurrence and favorable dis
trlbutlon. The weather during
the week has apparently proved
needed rains have occurred throughout
the wheat and corn regions, except in
portions of Illinois, Missouri and Iowa,
where light showers have occurred. and
Geographic reports received this morn
ing, June 5, Sunday, show that showers
have occurred during the past eight
hours and are likely to continue during
the next fOrty-eight hours in the states
above named. The general rains and
cool weather in the hay and tobacco
regions in the states on the Atlantic
coast and in the Ohio valley are reported
as favorable for these crops. The
weather was apparently favorable for
all growing crops throughout the South,
although reports from sections of Ten
nessee and Mississippi show that crops
were injured by hail in some sections of
these states.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06
LIFE SAVING.
Workings of United States Sta
ton as Told by a st. Paul Citi-

To the Editor of the Globe
SOUTHAMPTON. L. l., June Capt.
Nelson Burnett, in charge of the
United States life saving station at this
port, is man reserved in manner, and
close as an oyster. 1t was with some
difficulty lead him into giving me an
insite into the workings of the service
in order to place it before the readers
of the GLOBE who may not be familiar
with the routine of the system as it exists
at present, at least, so far as the 1856
miles of Long Island shore is con-
cerned. The entire shore is patrolled,
and by as fine set of men
as can be found in the service. This
station is very old one, having been
first instituted by some wealthy Ne
York gentlemen, who were Joined by
few here. In those early days there
was more need for it than at present, as
the knowledge of the dangers that beset
the coast were then very limited among
seamen, and few lighthouses were es-
tabiished to mark impending danger.
Capt. Burnett has been some twelve
years in the service at this station, and
during that time much valuable aid has
been rendered disabled vessels and sea-
men. The number of men employed at
this station is seven, and what is called
the active season, or the season of high
gales, is from Sept. to May /. During
these months all hands are engaged,
but at the end of that time the captain
only is at the station on watch, and
must sleep in the station house and re-
port weekly to the general superintend-
season the beach is patrolled for dis
lance of two and one-half miles each
way from the station. So perfect is the
system that man will be at once de-
tected who is direiect In his duty or
fails to connect with the patrolman at
the next station. The stations are five
miles apart and each patrol extends two
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06

was accompanied by word that the
steamer Ensign was at half mast
1t was at first feared that
the cardinal might have died on the
voyage and an unfounded rumor to that
effect even gained some circulation. A
steamer went down the bay and brought
He declined to talk to reporters.
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The Afghan War.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 4.-News
received from Herat says the ameer of
Afghanistan is in critical position. He
has withdrawn the garrison at Herat
and Balkh for the purpose of reinforc-
ing the troops defeated in the adjacent
country with the GhilZaiS.
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MortaIly Wounded.

KANSAS CITY. June 5.-About dozen
policemen went down to Randolph. ten
miles below here, where the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad is build
ing bridge across the Missouri
river, this afternoon, for the pur-
pose of quelling small riot.
Sam Swigert, saloonkeeper, had had
some trouble with some of the bridge
workers, and the result of the scrim-
mage was that John Garfield, alias Mon
tana Ike. of Chicago, was shot in the
side and head and Swigert in the groin.
Swigert will die.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06

THE trains running to the lakes yes
terday were crowded to their utmost
capacity. People are beginning to APP
preciate the advantage of an occasional
airing, and what is more, though they
take it by hundreds, disgraceful scenes
OF roMS are a rarity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06

WE DO not want to seem unduly in
quisitive, but we would like to know
what is being done in preparation for
the Minneapolis Exposition. st. Paul
stands ready to do her share, but she
has natural modesty about taking the
iniafiya
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06

ADAMS, MADISON, MONROE and
JACKSON were all famous hersemen.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS and Gen. JACK
SON were never known to miss a horse
race when one was in reach of them.
Gen. JAoKsoN's famous duel with
DICKINSON arose from the troubles of
the race course. We have never had a
president who did not exhibit fond
ness for horses, Mr.. LINCOLN and Mr..
CLEVELAND possibly manifesting less
interest in horse flesh than any of the
others. Gen. GRANTS fondnesS for
horses has become proverbial.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06

WE, of course, feel immensely flat
tered at the way the people gobbled up
the large edition of the GLOBE yester-
day, but we are not a bit vain, and will
reciprocate by printing paper next
Sunday that you can't afford to miss.